TIL #conversations is not just an end to encrypted, federated messenger, it can also send notifications to your apps through #unifiedpush

#xmpp #android #e2ee #decentralised

With the Amazon Appstore shutting down, it's becoming even more important to invest in sustainable alternative stores you can trust.

See how you can invest in Accrescent's future! A little help goes a long way:

accrescent.app/faq#contributin…

More information on the Amazon Appstore discontinuation on Android:

amazon.com/appstoreonandroidFA…

#privacy #security #appstore #accrescent #android

Accrescent Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about Accrescent.

^Accrescent

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 11 updated apps, 10 of them RB. No apps have been added, but 5 old ones have been removed:

* Timetables (7y, usage unclear)
* Backups (repo disappeared)¹
* BlabberTabber (defunct)
* Whats Done (added trackers, no response on issues, development stopped)¹
* Radio Player: repo disappeared, unclear permissions¹

¹ alternatives exist

RB status: 469 apps (38%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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@anyDr0id Ever scrolled down to the "Packages" section in our repo browser? Hover your mouse over those "green shields", click the question mark next to them for details 😉

Clients such as Droid-ify and Neo Store will support this soon™ as well. And there's apt.izzysoft.de/packages/dev.b… if you want a client to explore them right now™

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #Android

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 8 updated (all RB) and 2 added (also RB) apps:

* ReTerminal: a Terminal Emulator 🛡️
* Dharmik: an offline app to browse Hindu texts (currently: Bhagavad Gita and Atharvaveda) 🛡️

Our first "RB only" AppRain, so to speak 🥳 Current RB status: 468 apps (37.7%)

3 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

#reproducibleBuilds

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If anyone uses Android with TalkBack and the onscreen Braille keyboard, please try to reproduce and report this issue:

In Talkback, if onscreen keyboard echo is set to words, and a word with punctuation after it is typed, TalkBack does not read the word when Space is typed. Similarly, if an emoticon is typed, like ":)" nothing is spoken when Space is typed.

Steps to reproduce:

• Turn on TalkBack, and open TalkBack settings by tapping once with three fingers. Set up the TalkBack Braille keyboard under the Braille section.
• Go to Verbosity settings, then the keyboard echo option for onscreen keyboards, and set it to "words."
Now, open a text box, turn on the TalkBack Braille Keyboard, and type something like "this is a test." Note the period after test. Then, swipe right with one finger to enter a space.

Expected results:

TalkBack should read "this" "is" "a" "test period."

Actual results:

TalkBack reads "this" "is" "a" and is silent after test is written.

I also put it up on Google's issue tracker if anyone wants to start it.

issuetracker.google.com/issues…

#accessibility #android #blind #TalkBack #Braille

#XMPP enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?

My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. #Android doesn't have that as an allowable field, and #Thunderbird and #Nextcloud have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*

So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "xmpp:user@foo.bar" is.

Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": gultsch.social/@daniel/1140129…

It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> #Davx5 <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird

Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:".

(#DeltaChat gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)

#prosody #conversations #gajim #dino #snikket #monocles #monal

Daniel Gultsch

2025-02-16 09:41:01

Absolutely nobody knows what an XMPP address is, so just go ahead and call it a:

#XMPP #Conversations_im #Jabber

I think @daniel is still maintaining Lttrs for #Android.

codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/lttrs-a…

But yeah, I think it was an 🐔 hen 🥚 egg problem: there was no broadly available server implementation for 📧 #jmap before @stalwartlabs so I guess the clients have more pressure now.

/CC @thunderbird @k9mail @geary 👀

lttrs-android

No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain Email client for Android based on the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP).

^Codeberg.org

Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕

Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.

Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.

This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.

Without further ado, THANK YOU to:

• @yunohost, for powering Nebuchadnezzar
• @fedora, for running my beloved #Framework laptop
• @frameworkcomputer, for designing and building repairable, #Linux-friendly and truly open hardware
• @gnome and @GTK, for being just gorgeous
• @calyxos (thus @LineageOS), for powering my #Fairphone5
• #Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
• #AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
• @element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
• #Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
• @signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
• @Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
• #Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
• #Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
• @openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
• @organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
• @protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
• @libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
• #LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
• @photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
• #Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
• @readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
• @nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
• #Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
• #Listmonk, for sending out my newsletter
• @eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind, and for being the only reason why I resist and try to continue learning #JavaScript
• @forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
• @musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
• The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!

Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.

I am super sorry if I forgot someone!

#OpenSource #ILoveFS #SoftwareFreedom #Fairphone #Android #LineageOS #FSFE #OpenStreetMap #PhotoPrism #LibreOffice #Readeck #Eleventy #11ty #GNOME #Signal #forgejo #Codeberg #MusicBrainz #ListenBrainz #MetaBrainz

Nebuchadnezzar

Information and insights concerning the configuration and maintenance of Tommi’s server.

^{Tommi (Tommi’s mind)}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated (4 RB) and 2 added apps today:

* TDX: explore and monitor your favorite artists and their latest releases 🛡️
* Private DNS Quick Setting: Toggle Private DNS from Quick Settings 🛡️

RB status: 446 apps (35.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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it is extraordinary, how #deltachat #android, over all the years, with all the #features added, did manage not to grow in size

- version 1.0 from 2019 was 64 mb
- today's 1.54 is 53 mb :)

Please boost for reach:

I wonder if Fedi has anyone who works at OnePlus, or knows any way of getting in touch with a human there that can help fix some accessibility issues? I got my OnePlus phone yesterday, and love the hardware, the customizability, and the haptic motor. It's maybe the only Android phone right now that comes with the option to set phone audio to the earpiece when you hold the phone to your ear. And TalkBack is amazingly responsive on it. However, there are accessibility issues, like TalkBack's support for the fingerprint sensor being broken so that it always instructs me to move my finger up, no matter where it is around the sensor, suggested apps on the recent apps screen not always showing the correct app that will be launched, and volume and brightness sliders in quick settings not working correctly with TalkBack. I'm not sure if OnePlus has any accessibility staff, but since they're using AudioEye on their website, I'd guess they have at least thought of accessibility slightly, even if there are often no audio captchas so I can't log into my OnePlus account. Overall though, it's a great phone and may be the one that allows me to settle into Android full time.

#accessibility #Boost_OK #blind #OnePlus #Android #OnePlus #OnePlus13 #OP13 #TalkBack

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 13 updated (6 RB) and 1 added apps:

* Smither: a light-weight Android client for Mastodon 🛡️

RB status: 433 apps (34.7%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated (9 RB) and 1 added apps:

* Open Note: a powerful Markdown notepad 🛡️

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk the discontinued (archived) LSPosed module was replaced with its successor by JingMatrix.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated (6 RB) and 1 added apps:

* traced it: Quick notes with time & amounts 🛡️

at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 1 module was updated and 1 new module was added:

* OpenEUICC: provide eSIM support on Android devices that do not support eSIM

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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Quoting a Mastodon post by GrapheneOS:
"The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users."

grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

#AndroidSystemSafetyCore #Android #Privacy #GrapheneOS

🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore

They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.

Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-s…

Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps

"There is no prosecution at any cost." | Tuta

Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU - it would create an unprecedented surveillance monster that violates fundamental rights.

^Tuta

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated (11 RB) and 2 added:

* Print(Notes): a cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian
* Scrcpy: mirror display and touch control between Android devices

3 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?

If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".

You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.

developers.google.com/android/…

Google System APK Transparency

^{Google for Developers}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated (10 RB) and 1 added apps:

* Perceived Stress Scale: Take the test to find out how stressed you are 🛡️

Number of apps in the repo: 1242
RB status: 422 apps (34%) (1 app failed RB today, will hopefully be brought back soon)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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Just a reminder, especially in this wild time we live in. DO NOT INSTALL WORK MDM ON YOUR PERSONAL DEVICE.
If your work requires Microsoft Intune or similar MDM, to get email/teams/slack. don't accept it. It opens your device up for them to access private data and disable/delete your phone (even if they say they wont, they can)

blog.cdemi.io/never-accept-an-…

#privacy #android #iphone #work #email #outlook #microsoft

Never accept an MDM policy on your personal phone

In this new age of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), employees can bring personally owned devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, etc...) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications.

^{Christopher Demicoli (blog.cdemi.io)}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 19 updated (14 of those RB) and 2 added apps:

* Sefirah: the continuation of Sekia (Windows Notification Mirroring, Clipboard Sync, etc)
* Moneytopia: track your personal expenses 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps (and #reproducibleBuilds) with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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Late report of #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today, with 8 updated and 1 added app:

* Hypatia is the FOSS malware scanner formerly provided by DivestOS. This is a hopefully maintained fork of it.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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Via Tom's Hardware: Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

Does this mean that Meta/Facebook is going to also ban mentions of:

• #Android phones?
• #SteamDeck / #SteamOS?
• Most "smart" cars, TV's, appliances?
• Most (somewhere around 90 percent) of the top Websites?
• Talk of Meta's own internal infrastructure?

What an absolutely asinine thing to do. Linux is incredibly prevalent in the technology landscape today. Yes, #linux on the desktop is a small percentage of the overall devices on the market today. However, linux usage in #embedded, #server, and #appliance applications is to a level where censoring references to it is insanity.

The irony of all of this? Zuckerfaces recent pull back of moderation on Meta's sites.... Meaning it's now okay to bash socially vulnerable populations, spread tons of mis-information on many social and political topics... But linux?"Oh no! That's a #CyberSecurity threat!"

This reeks of political #tomfoolery. I won't be surprised if it's eventually revealed that our new overlords put pressure on #Meta to #censor linux.

tomshardware.com/software/linu…

Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations.

^{Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 18 updated (10 RB) and 2 added apps:

* Working Time Account: record your personal working and free time 🛡️
* Logline - MovieApp: discover, organize, and rate movies 🛡️

RB status: 419 apps (33.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 11 updated (9 RB) and 1 added apps:

* SimpleTune: a Material 3 YouTube Music Client

apt.izzysoft.de/magisk had 4 #Magisk modules updated.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

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